Building Hope for the Next Decade of Psychosocial Oncology: Optimizing the Integration of Supportive Care into Oncology Care
A special issue of Current Oncology (ISSN 1718-7729). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychosocial Oncology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 1043
Special Issue Editors
2. Adjunct Professor, Department of Oncology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Interests: psychosocial; behavioural research; cancer; physicians; patients
2. Department of Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada
3. Department of Supportive Care, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
Interests: psychosocial oncology; adolescent and young adult; health services research; supportive cancer care
2. Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Interests: psychosocial oncology; digital health; cancer survivorship; health equity
2. St. Mary’s Ressearch Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
Interests: psychosocial oncology; digital health; caregivers; patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs); patient-reported experience measures (PREMs); self-management; implementation
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2. Department of Psychiatry, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
3. Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Interests: psychosocial oncology; psychoneuroimmunology; screening for distress; medical assistance in dying; depression
2. Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Medical Science & Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Interests: psychosocial oncology; decision making; cancer prevention; health equity; health policy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Psychosocial oncology is a discipline concerned with the social, psychological, emotional, spiritual, quality-of-life, and practical aspects of cancer. This includes cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, end-of-life care, bereavement, and survivorship. The focus of this discipline is on providing a whole-person care approach while also considering caregivers, communities, providers, services, and system-level factors.
The Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology (CAPO), established in 1987, aims to foster psychosocial care that optimizes health and healing for every Canadian affected by cancer. CAPO’s research advisory committee oversees the research activities and knowledge translation endeavors of CAPO members to optimize evidence-based psychosocial care, meet the research needs of our members, and support CAPO’s annual conference.
The 2024 conference, taking place in Calgary, Alberta, marks the 39th year that CAPO has brought together a national body of health care professionals, patient advocates/partners, and community stakeholders with the shared goal of supporting patients, families, and loved ones affected by cancer. This year, the CAPO conference theme is “Building hope: Integrating sustainable, innovative, and accessible care in psychosocial oncology”. In cancer care, hope can support individuals in buffering stress, overcoming adversity and burnout, coping with unique challenges, and optimizing health, healing, and growth.
As CAPO heads towards its next decade of advancing psychosocial oncology in Canada, this Current Oncology Special Issue, “Building Hope for the Next Decade of Psychosocial Oncology- Optimizing Integration of Supportive Care into Oncology Care”, welcomes contributions in clinical, education, health systems, and policy research, including diverse perspectives related to inclusion, diversity, equity, and access, that will lead psychosocial oncology beyond today’s reality, pointing to a future of optimized integration in oncology care.
Dr. Fredrick D. Ashbury
Dr. Jonathan Avery
Dr. Jackie Bender
Dr. Sylvie Lambert
Dr. Madeline Li
Dr. Gilla K. Shapiro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- psychosocial oncology
- hope
- cancer
- interdisciplinary research
- Canada
- CAPO
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